Automobile brake



March 27, 1928. r r 1,663,785

s. 0. WHITE ET AL AUTOMOBILE BRAKE Filed April 28. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. 20 Samuel 0. White and Robert 6. Plexico,

A TTORNE Y3 March 27, 1928.

AUTOMOBILE BRAKE Filed April 28, 1926 INVENTOR. Samuel 0. White aqd/ BY be t 5 .Plexico,

A TTORNEYS 1,663,785 s. 0. WHITE ET AL 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 27, 1928 UNITED ST ria "SAMUEL 0. W ITE AND ROBERT SPRATT rLEXrco, 0F MUNCIE,' INDI N AssIGNOEs T0 WARNER GEAE COMPANY, OF MnNoIE, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

AUTOMOBILE BRAKE. i

Application filed. April as, 1926, Serial No. 105,123.

Our invention relates to improvements in brakes for automobiles and particularlyto that type of brake which is applied to the transmission shaft of the automobile and which is mounted on the transmission gear case. It is one of theobjects of our inven tion to provide operating means for this type of brake which whileserving to manipulate the brake and clamp the brake band upon the drum has no tendency to distort the brake band andthereby cause the same to bind unequally on the drum.

For the purpose of disclosing ourvinvention we have illustrated one embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings in which Fig 1 is a side-elevation of the rear end of 1 a transmission casing having a brake band and its Operating mechanism thereon; Fig. 2 is an end elevation and Q Fig. 3 isaplan view.. A a f ,o I In the embodiment 'llustrated the transmission shaftil of the automobile has mounted thereon and transversely of its axis a 25 braking drum 2. Surrounding this brake drum is a brake band consisting of the usual metallic'band 3 provided with-a friction lining 4.1 The back of the band 3 intermediate of its ends is provided with a U shaped anchor clip -5'the legs of which are flared outwardly as at 6 and secured to the band 3. This clip receives the end 7 of a supporting bracket 8 secured to the rearwall of the transmission housing or casing'9 by means of suitable cap screw-s 10. i

The free ends of the band are adapted to be contracted, for braking purposes, and to this end we provide a compression bolt 11 which passes through ears 12'and 13 on the respective ends of the band 3. This bolt passes through the free end of a bracket 14 the opposite end of which is secured to the side of the transmission casing by suitable cap screws 15. Interposed between the bracket 14 and the ears'13 and 12 on the brake band are coiled spreading springs'16 and 16' which surround and are kept in place by the bolt 11 and serve to separate the free ends of the band.

The bolt 11- at its top is provided with a bearing nut 17 adapted to bear upon the ear 12 and at its lower end this bolt is bent back upon itseli to forma hooked end 18engaging a pin 19' passing through a cam arm 20 of a bell crank lever, 'This came m bears l with the dog by a the pin 19 tion by a lock upon the bottom of the ear 13. The bell crank lever is formed prefegably from stampings each provided with a cam arm 20 and an opposite arm 21. These stampings are separated to receive between them the pin 19 as well as the hooked end 18 and the arm 21 is provided with a pin 22 passing through an eye, interposedbetween the two stampingsyof a link 23 the opposite end of which is connected to an arm 24 of the brake handle 25which brake handle is pivoted on the side of the transmission casing. arm 24 is provided with a pivoted dog 26 adapted, as the arm 24 is rocked downwardly, to engage in "the ratchet teeth 27 'on a bracket arm 28 to lock the arm in any depressed position to which it maybe moved. This dog is released by the usual releasing handle 29011 the brake lever25 connected rod 30. I

The operation of the brake is obvious. As the end of the arm 24 is depressed by pulling on 'the brake lever 25 the cam lever receives a corresponding depressing 'movement at its Outer end causing thein'ner end of the arm 20 to fulcrum on th e ear 13 and to bQ'IIlOVBCl downwardly there by drawing 'jdownwardly' the compression bolt 14, moving the ear 12 downwardly while at the same time'there is a tendency to move the ear 13 upwardly thereby contracting the band 3 on the brake drum 2. It is noted that while the movement of the brake arm 25 is in a plane parallel with tllQfiXlS of the brake band, the force exerted on the cam lever is in a direction transverse to the axis of the brake band or in a plane parallel with For the purpose of supporting the free end of the brake band toprevent the same from sagging we provide a supporting link in the form of a bolt 31 passing through the ear 13 and through the bracket 14. The ear rests upon the head 32 of the bolt and the bolt is supported from'the bracket by an adjustable nut nut 34. The bolt is perfectly free to move vertically but the arrangement is such that the weight of the free ends of the brake band is supported by this bolt'and the band thus prevented from sagging. This permits of a very close adjustment of t e band relati y to t e d m? F h r- 33 locked in its adjusted posi li e connected at one endto said band, a Cam more the bolt 31 takes the l'irst down thrust occasioned by applying the brake. Due to the link connection 23 between the rocking can1 1ar,n'1 21 and thebrake lever when the lever is first 1DQVGCl' tO anlon'aposition;there is a down thrust on the bolt 11 and through this bolt and the spring 16 on the ear '13.- The bolt 31 takes this down thrust and permits the cam arm 20 to rock upwardly drawing the two free ends of the band together.

e claim as our invention 1. The ctf finbination with a transmission casing and shaft, of a brake drum on said shaft, a brakeband for said drum mounted on the endof said casing, a compression bolt having'one end connected to one end of said band, a Cam; lever tulcruming on the opposite end of said band and pivotally connected to the opposite end of said bolt and operatin 'in theplan'e'of said band, a guide brackettfor the bolt secured on one side of the transmission easing, expansion springs tor the band surrounding said bolt and inter posed between the bracket and the opposite ends of the band, a bell crank brake lever pivoted on the transmission easing on the same side ofthe axis ofthe band as that of'the endsof theband and operating"- in a plane at right angles to the plane of the drum, one arm -otsaid brakelever extending toward? the brake bandand' to a point substantially above the compression bolt, and

andfl afthiaist rod pivotally connected atone end to saidarm and, at theopposit-eend to said cam lever. i

2. The combination With a transmission casing andla shaft, of a brake drum ,on saidshatt, a brake band'for said drum mounted onone end ofthe casino, a compression bolt lever pivotally connected to the opposite end of said band and operating-in the plane of the band, means for supporting one of the free ends of theband, abell crank brake lever pivoted onthe;transmission casing on the same side of the axis of the band as the ends 'ofa-the band and operating in a plane at right angles to the plane of the drum one arm of saidbr'ake' lever extending rearwardly toward thev brake band to a point substantially"above the'compre-ssion bolt and,

a thrust rod pivotallyconnected at one'en'd to said arninndat the'oppo'site end to said cani' lever. V

' The combination with a transmission caslng and shatt, of abrake drum on said shaft, abrake 'bandj-for said drum mounted onthe end'of saidcasing, acornpre-ssion bolt adjustably" connected at one" end to said band, acam lever pivotallycon'nected to the opposite end'ot' said bolt for tnlcruming on the opposite end ofi'the band and operating in the pla'ne of thejband; anadjustable'support forsaid opposite end ot'the brake band, a bell crank brakeleverpivoted on the trans mission casing on the same side of the axis end to sai'djarmand at its opposite end to said cam lever. Y

Inwitness' whereof, we have hereunto set our hands at Muncie, lndiana this 22nd day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty'six. i v

SAMUEL WHITE.

"R. SPRATT PLEXICO. 

